15 Proven Ways to Get Faster

8. Begin with a bang.

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Want to crush a short time trial? Shoot off the line. You may be rewarded with a faster finish than if you use a more even pace or a slower-start strategy. In a small study of racers, British researchers found that those who started a little faster than their average pace increased their time to exhaustion by 25 percent compared with those who started slowly or used a more even pace.